Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive

Mary Nakaishi and her husband Uke devoted their life’s work to helping Ogden’s poor get back on their feet and earned the reputation of Ogden’s “Angels of 25th Street". Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumaniti...

Learn how Ogden's families and business-owners used the prohibition against alcohol to invent new styles of work -- and how law enforcement worked to stop them. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/s...

Confections are a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States and Utahns currently buy candy at the highest rate in the nation -- almost double the US average. It's been that way for at least a century. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check...

Starting in the 1840s, government explorers began to survey and map the Intermountain West more thoroughly. Meet Leonard Swett, a wealthy young man from Chicago who came West with the U.S. Geological Survey. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out th...

It might be easy to think that the production of folk art isn't really "work." But whether or not folk artists make a living through their creativity, their labors require hard-earned mastery of skills. Learn about two Utah women whose art was their work. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch t...

You call, you text, you surf the net. You spend countless hours on your phone. Learn how the telephone transformed Utah's remote Uinta Basin. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in coal mining created a uniquely hazardous work environment for miners in Utah at the turn of the twentieth century. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/sto...

Learn how one family went literally from "bags to riches" and how a son honored his mother's legacy by naming after her one of Salt Lake's most noted buildings. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahh...

Much has been made of the early Mormons' communal work ethic and the effective redistribution of resources within their communities. But how did they actually organize these efforts? Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection a...

Hill Air Force Base is Utah's sixth largest employer and military spending creates over $9 billion in economic activity for the State. Learn about the historic roots of Utah's "Military Industrial Complex." Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast chan...

Learn about Utah's nineteenth century midwives, who were unusual in that they were actually paid for their work as medical providers. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

Wings flashing in the sunlight, raucous calls filling the air, and tons of bird excrement coating the rocks. Learn about guano gathering out on the Great Salt Lake. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/st...

The Mexican Mural Renaissance is one of the most famous art movements in modern history. Learn how a blond-haired, blued-eyed, 20-year-old from Salt Lake City became a Mexican Muralist. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at...

The nationwide depression of the 1890s produced unprecedented levels of unemployment. One unfortunate casualty of the resulting stress and anxiety was Mary Cook, a young mother from Utah County. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole colle...

Learn how Utah women won the right to vote not once, but twice. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

Learn how a famous historian used her girlhood memories of Carbon County to completely change the way we understand Utah's past. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

The Woman's Exponent magazine served an unusual role in advocating for Utah's working women during the late nineteenth century. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

American industrialism at the turn of the 20th century brought Utah women out of their homes and into the workplace. There they faced inequality and wage disparity. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/st...

Verla Gean Miller FarmanFarmaian -- beloved teacher to many Utah school children -- made one decision to travel that set her on a fantastic journey that changed her life. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities....

Elizabeth Randall Cumming came to Salt Lake in 1858 as the wife of Utah's first non-Mormon Territorial Governor. Her expectations of the journey were defied every step of the way. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at u...

It may come as a surprise to learn that in late 19th century Utah -- an era with great constraints on women's work -- that prostitution offered at least some women a path to a powerful career. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole co...

How would you feel if you were a refugee and had to flee your home and move to another country? Meet two Utahns who did just that. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

Utah's first Jewish congregation, B'nai Israel, remains a symbol of the state's first Jewish pioneers. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.

Utah has become home to people of many backgrounds and cultures since the first Mormon Pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. What brought these people to Utah? Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhuman...

Chinese immigrant laborers built the railroad from California to Utah. Tune in to the Beehive Archive, a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah's history. Catch the show weekly on your favorite podcast channel or check out the whole collection at utahhumanities.org/stories.